How does cpanel-based web hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offers on the entire web page hosting market offer the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web space hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web site hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an average person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web site hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique site hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met most web page hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside No.1: A foolish domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)

Are you growing baffled? We doubtlessly are!

Shortcoming No.2: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly increase their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too badly.

Downside No.3: A thorough shortage of domain management GUIs

Do we need to bring up the utter absence of a modern domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a vast downside. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Point No.4: Many user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management software? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting company. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (principally built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the enthusiastic customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web site hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting corporations:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...